District 209 teachers, social workers, librarians and school counselors are likely headed for a work stoppage on Feb. 18. | File Teachers, social workers, librarians and school counselors in Proviso ...

There are still outstanding mail and absentee ballots to be counted but with 100% of precincts reporting in Maywood, election day voters in the village opted to retain the current managerial form of ...

You might say cajun cooking is Richard Ortega’s bones. The 32-year-old chef from Brookfield grew up in Southeast Texas, just close enough to nearby Louisiana to catch a passion for the state’s famous ...

But this year’s Car and Bike Show was perhaps the event’s signature enhancement, with car enthusiasts from all over flocking to Washington Boulevard to participate. Laura Rogers, of Maywood, was out ...

State and local elected officials cut the ribbon on Westchester’s new senior-only DMV site on Nov. 28. The site is just the third in the state. | Courtesy Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch/Facebook Senior ...

Proviso Math and Science Academy, 8601 Roosevelt Rd. in Forest Park, is ranked 15th on U.S. News and World Report’s new rankings of Best High Schools in Illinois. The school is ranked 324th nationally ...

If overnight street parking in residential districts is allowed, are you in favor of changing certain two-way traffic residential streets to one-way traffic residential streets to accommodate ...

Westchester turns 100 this year, prompting me to create a list of some interesting historical tidbits I came across while looking back on the village’s history. Got more interesting historical facts ...

Westchester Village President Frank Perry, who was elected to his first term in that office in April, died Wednesday, Dec. 22. Perry’s death was confirmed by Westchester village officials in a ...

A graphic from the State of the Unions 2023 report by the the pro-union Illinois Economic Policy Institute and the Project for Middle Class Renewal at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows ...

Proviso Township is mourning the death of Clarence E. Thomas, a mainstay in local politics and a longtime employee at Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview School District 89. Thomas died on Feb. 26. He was ...

Bellwood’s physical landscape has changed significantly since Andre Harvey was elected the suburb’s first Black male mayor in 2017. Two gas stations, a renovated U-Haul facility, a four-story, 80-unit ...